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46 ♪ g serious conversations about the im mri indication of a fiscal cliff. it is really going to come down to this election. the lines have been drawn. this week in the senate barack obama's tax hike proposal was brought up and passed on a party line vote. >> that is house majority leader eric holder. is he right that lines have been drawn over the budget? you bet he is. and while congress debates, mayors in cities across the country are already feeling the pinch, how will they fund social services and phoenix stands to lose thousands of jobs if congress doesn't act. statewide, arizona would lose almost 50,000 jobs from those automatic cuts. so if phoenix is going to lose that much you better believe the mayor is going to kick into gear. he went to washington for the third time this month to talk about that. and joining us now is mayor greg stanton. welcome inside "the war room." >> happy to be here. >> tell everybody what would those massive and automatic spending cut mean for the city of phoenix. >> i'm the mayor of a city that is digging out from undernea
46 ♪ g serious conversations about the im mri indication of a fiscal cliff. it is really going to come down to this election. the lines have been drawn. this week in the senate barack obama's tax hike proposal was brought up and passed on a party line vote. >> that is house majority leader eric holder. is he right that lines have been drawn over the budget? you bet he is. and while congress debates, mayors in cities across the country are already feeling the pinch, how will they fund...
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. >>> this charade over the so-called fiscal cliff may finally be winding down. that's coming up. but whether he's climbing everest, scuba diving the great barrier reef with sharks or jumping into the market he goes with people he trusts, which is why he trades with a company that doesn't nickel and dime him with hidden fees. so he can worry about other things like what the market is doing and being ready, no matter what happens which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense from td ameritrade. but when joint pain and stiffness from psoriatic arthritis hit even the smallest things became difficult. i finally understood what serious joint pain is like. i talked to my rheumatologist and he prescribed enbrel. enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, and stop joint damage. because enbrel, etanercept suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections tuberculosis lymphoma, other cancers, and nervous system and blood disorders have occurred. before starting enbrel your doctor should test you for tubercul
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. >> i'm not saying it's dead but i am saying the majority of members of congress see the fiscal cliff we want to sit down and we want to get something worked out. >> if you appropriate some of the money you achieved by eliminating deductions and loopholes to the national debt, even though that may technically violate the pledge, sign me up. that's a reasonable accommodation for a republican to make. >> jennifer: for the record, that was senators john mccain and lindsey graham so the question is this grover norquist's last stand? here with an answer is donnie fowler. donnie of course, democratic strategist and great political operative. welcome back into "the war room." is it grover norquist's last stand? >> we can only hope. look, i think republicans should just say sign the pledge for the last election. not for this congress. it expired. there's only 39 of the 40 top senators and republicans -- six are freed. let his people go, grover. let your people go. >> jennifer: he ain't going to let them go. all of this is occurring in the context of the fiscal cliff negotiations and what lind
. >> i'm not saying it's dead but i am saying the majority of members of congress see the fiscal cliff we want to sit down and we want to get something worked out. >> if you appropriate some of the money you achieved by eliminating deductions and loopholes to the national debt, even though that may technically violate the pledge, sign me up. that's a reasonable accommodation for a republican to make. >> jennifer: for the record, that was senators john mccain and lindsey graham...
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here we go with the fiscal cliff and the debt and now they vote down the disabilities act right in front of bob dole in a real wheelchair. we're just like wow. >> absolutely. if anyone wants to make a music video using this song as the background alluding to all of that stuff you're talking about you know, i'm not going to say no. >> stephanie: there you go. >> i can't speak for viacom's lawyers. >> stephanie: no. >> but i'm not going to say no. >> stephanie: here's a fun fact. co-wrote ten of the album songs. who is so handsome and rowic and talented. >> thank you. >> don't be a jerk dates from 2009. the joe wilson thing was happening. it just seemed like rudeness and you know, the lack of manners and civil discourses breaking down. you know, my cowriter, andy and i came up with this phrase, how about a song don't be a jerk, it's christmas. it wasn't jerk as you know, stephanie. it begins with a d and ends with a k and ends with flick but -- >> stephanie: yes. >> three years later, it is a whole spongebob christmas album where we have a whole bunch of other songs. one done in street cor
here we go with the fiscal cliff and the debt and now they vote down the disabilities act right in front of bob dole in a real wheelchair. we're just like wow. >> absolutely. if anyone wants to make a music video using this song as the background alluding to all of that stuff you're talking about you know, i'm not going to say no. >> stephanie: there you go. >> i can't speak for viacom's lawyers. >> stephanie: no. >> but i'm not going to say no. >> stephanie:...
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he said there is no fiscal cliff. it's absolute total nonsense. he's obviously-- >> crazy. >> stephanie: the first guy you want advice from. the guy who shut the government down, do you remember? then they lost in landslides because of that guy there. okay dan in chicago. hi dan. hello dan. dan, dan, going once, how about garth in washington. hi garth. >> caller: hi, stephanie how are you today? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: i'm a boy here in washington, and we're going over this cliff, but i think the cliff was passed a long time ago. what is wrong with the flat tax where everybody paid the same. i don't know enough about it, but nobody speaks of that. also-- >> stephanie: you're talking about the steve forbes, he's the one who brings that up every year. i know it sounds simple. a lot of times things that sound simple are not necessarily the best idea. >> it would be well, it would take away all deductions. like owning homes and stuff like that. and it would be really, really unfair to poorer people who can't afford to pay 10% or whate
he said there is no fiscal cliff. it's absolute total nonsense. he's obviously-- >> crazy. >> stephanie: the first guy you want advice from. the guy who shut the government down, do you remember? then they lost in landslides because of that guy there. okay dan in chicago. hi dan. hello dan. dan, dan, going once, how about garth in washington. hi garth. >> caller: hi, stephanie how are you today? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: i'm a boy here in washington,...
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. >> eliot: coming up, a warn from ben bernanke if we go over the fiscal cliff, it is a long way down. but first bain, bain, won't go away and jon stewart and stephen colbert weigh in. when it doesn't fit anywhere else, we put it in the viewfinder. >> the hot political story of the moment is mitt romney's old venture capital company. which happens to bear the same name as the most frightening concurrent batman villain. >> mitt romney's unsolvable bain problem. >> did mitt romney have operational control of bain capital from 1999 to 2002? >> governor romney left bain in 1999. >> i do think he was chairman, president and ceo of bain for those three years that he said he was gone. >> the bain attack is the bain of their existence if you'll pardon the pun. >> bain capital. >> at bain capital. >> bain capital. >> questions about bain. >> bain. >> bain. >> bain, bain. >> when it comes to bain, it is on. >> obama is now attacking romney's record. it is like he's hell bent on making the word bain synonymous with a source of harm or ruin. [ laughter ] >> i had no involvement with the managemen
. >> eliot: coming up, a warn from ben bernanke if we go over the fiscal cliff, it is a long way down. but first bain, bain, won't go away and jon stewart and stephen colbert weigh in. when it doesn't fit anywhere else, we put it in the viewfinder. >> the hot political story of the moment is mitt romney's old venture capital company. which happens to bear the same name as the most frightening concurrent batman villain. >> mitt romney's unsolvable bain problem. >> did...
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cliff bill. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, japan first. >> eliot: first explain why you came down in favor of this bill that is getting a fair bit of criticism from both sides of the aisle. >> it was a tough vote, and i would not be honest with you if i said i didn't consider voting no. if we go over the cliff and 5 trillion-dollar is taken out of the economy you're heading into a major recession, more unemployment. the fact that we prevented 99% of americans from paying higher income taxes very important. two million workers will continue to get unemployment benefits. very important. seniors on medicare will be able to walk into the doctor's office and get treated rather than see their doctors get a 27% reduction in their reimbursement rates. those are the reasons why i voted for it. the arguments against it are several fold. two of the main ones are number one, there was an tremendous tax break on estate tax that will benefit the top three-tenths of 1%. that's about $100 billion over a
cliff bill. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, japan first. >> eliot: first explain why you came down in favor of this bill that is getting a fair bit of criticism from both sides of the aisle. >> it was a tough vote, and i would not be honest with you if i said i didn't consider voting no. if we go over the cliff and 5 trillion-dollar is taken out of the economy you're heading into a major recession, more unemployment. the fact that we prevented 99% of americans from...
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they pushed everything down at the election creating at the time the fiscal cliff which was as one person in our film called a suicide event strapped on to the economy and waiting to be detonated. after the election obama sits down with boehner. they wait until the middle of december because obama has been slow walking boehner's proposal were right after the election. and the president is pretty tough. he doesn't want to give anything that he was giving away back in the grand bargain talk. and he doesn't think boehner at $800 billion is giving him enough. that's a signal right there that things are not going to go well back in december, and we know now that they're not going well looking intoed future. >> cenk: in you're progressive you have to be ecstatic that joe biden purposely or accidently screwed up the grand bargain negotiations because it would have been a disaster for progressiveses. if you're a republican you're thinking that tea party knuckle heads would regarding the deal. >> the tea party clash is what gave the majority the midterm election what the president called shallacki
they pushed everything down at the election creating at the time the fiscal cliff which was as one person in our film called a suicide event strapped on to the economy and waiting to be detonated. after the election obama sits down with boehner. they wait until the middle of december because obama has been slow walking boehner's proposal were right after the election. and the president is pretty tough. he doesn't want to give anything that he was giving away back in the grand bargain talk. and...
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to work on the fiscal cliff and republicans in congress say they're more than ready to compromise. if president obama will only accept the -- endorse mitt romney's plan for the budget, they say they will agree. well guess what. that's not how it works! remember what happened on november 6th? obama won! romney lost! it is up to them to accept obama's plan. we'll tell you why and get your calls but first we take the latest here, today's current news update from lisa ferguson out in los angeles has got it for us. hi lisa. good morning. >> hey bill. good morning everyone. lawmakers could finally get the answers they're demanding today in the investigation into former c.i.a. director david petraeus. the fbi and c.i.a. say they will brief members of the house and senate intelligence committees laying out how they handled the case and standing by their claim that politics were not involved in their decision to keep lawmakers in the dark. at least four people are now caught up in the investigation. along with petraeus and paula broadwell, there is jill kelley and top afghanistan commander
to work on the fiscal cliff and republicans in congress say they're more than ready to compromise. if president obama will only accept the -- endorse mitt romney's plan for the budget, they say they will agree. well guess what. that's not how it works! remember what happened on november 6th? obama won! romney lost! it is up to them to accept obama's plan. we'll tell you why and get your calls but first we take the latest here, today's current news update from lisa ferguson out in los angeles...
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the talk of sequestration and fiscal cliffs, austerity will hurt us badly. >> john: i want to ask you a quick followup before we bring others in. we heard about the cries that the stimulus was not big enough and we need to spend more. and austerity punishes the middle class for the sins of the upper class that the middle class was not even privy to. do you think the president has bought into what his opponents say, or has he always believed it. >> i think he's more moderate than i would like to see him. i think his instinct is towards this austerity. he bailed out of the position as soon as he appointed a budget balancing legislation led by two conservatives. a conservative democrat and very conservative republican alan simpson. he stopped talking about jobs since 2011. a little hiatus here a there were. he started talking thank goodness for jobs when the election started to approach. what are his instincts? he may well believe the issues. it's not an issue for four or five years and longer. >> john: in fairness 2011 was when he pitched the johns program, and our republican friends ki
the talk of sequestration and fiscal cliffs, austerity will hurt us badly. >> john: i want to ask you a quick followup before we bring others in. we heard about the cries that the stimulus was not big enough and we need to spend more. and austerity punishes the middle class for the sins of the upper class that the middle class was not even privy to. do you think the president has bought into what his opponents say, or has he always believed it. >> i think he's more moderate than i...
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fiscal cliff deal essentially came down to him and vice president joe biden which may have cost him certainly up for re-election. he knows that he can't have his fingerprints on a government shutdown. >> bill: "huffington post" sabrina siddiqui in studio with us talking about -- to the extent there's any activity out of congress, it is happening at the town hall level where they're getting pressure on immigration reform from the left and on the right on obamacare and shutting down the government. your thoughts and your comments welcome at 1-866-55-press. we'll be right back. >> announcer: starting live on free speech tv on september 3rd, learn more at billpressshow.com. this is the "bill press show." >> did anyone tell the pilgrims they should self-deport? >> no, they said "make us a turkey and make it fast". >> (laughter). >> she gets the comedians laughing. >> that's the best! >> that's hilarious. >> ... and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there is wiggle room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> she's joy behar. >> ya, i consider you jew-talian. >> okay, whatever you wa
fiscal cliff deal essentially came down to him and vice president joe biden which may have cost him certainly up for re-election. he knows that he can't have his fingerprints on a government shutdown. >> bill: "huffington post" sabrina siddiqui in studio with us talking about -- to the extent there's any activity out of congress, it is happening at the town hall level where they're getting pressure on immigration reform from the left and on the right on obamacare and shutting...
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cliff but the susan rice. send her down there. send the cia down there. we are not moving and we are not going to let yougo get away with villinizing our administration a new obama going into the next 4iers. i am hoping we will see a lot more progressive reforms because of it. >> i hope you are right, too. we talked about this. something i want to get to at the top of the hour. obama has every reason right? to feel the power and exercise the power. every day -- i mean he won. okay? he won on november 6th, the popular vote the electoral vote overwhelmingly but i didn't realize there are still millions of votes still uncounted and every day, his margin keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. he is now a 51%, and romney is at 47%. there is something magic about the 47%. right? >> beautifully reviewed up. it's so good >> bill: the fact he ends up part of the 47%. obama, 51%. he beat romney by more than george bush beat john kerry in 2004. >> that's a solid, solid victory. he has a mandate. >> i think he defini
cliff but the susan rice. send her down there. send the cia down there. we are not moving and we are not going to let yougo get away with villinizing our administration a new obama going into the next 4iers. i am hoping we will see a lot more progressive reforms because of it. >> i hope you are right, too. we talked about this. something i want to get to at the top of the hour. obama has every reason right? to feel the power and exercise the power. every day -- i mean he won. okay? he won...
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the fiscal cliff who walks off of a cliff and keeps walking through the air until he finally, looks down you know. he bows whoa! >> bill: here i am. >> we talked off the fiscal cliff a long time ago when george w. bush took. it took a drunken, alcoholic chain-smoking schmuck like john boehner to look down. where we go from here is gest sequester land and if we have to pay higher taxes because these guys can't get it together, we will remember who messed it up. john boehner & company and we are also going to realize that maybe we will think twice before we choose a party that does what they have done to this economy in the last 10 years. >> bill: the only -- paul, you are absolutely right. well said, i think the only answer is, you've got to clean house and get rid of these tea partyers in the house of representatives. the problem is the way districts are drawn today, it's almost impossible to defeat them in a primary and impossible for republican, moderate republicans to defeat them in the primary and impossible for democrats to defeat them in the general election. but we have got to cle
the fiscal cliff who walks off of a cliff and keeps walking through the air until he finally, looks down you know. he bows whoa! >> bill: here i am. >> we talked off the fiscal cliff a long time ago when george w. bush took. it took a drunken, alcoholic chain-smoking schmuck like john boehner to look down. where we go from here is gest sequester land and if we have to pay higher taxes because these guys can't get it together, we will remember who messed it up. john boehner &...
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of the fiscal cliff. >> eliot: you're saying something hugely important. alan greenspan did try to create the impression that the market and the economy was one and the same. that was a huge mistake the financialization of our economy. that's what led to the cataclysm in 2008. perhaps more important, the point you made, you're right there are a lot of people who are trying to create the fear, the cassandras that i referred to the top of the show who are behind that argument who say now you must do what we want. they want corporate tax cut. am i right? they're sliding something in there that is not directly related to the issue that we're supposed to be directing. >> everyone is doing that. doing the negotiation with the union or any other negotiation you start off with what speaker boehner is calling your la la land proposal. you start off with what you want, and then you work from there. both sides have staked out their dream position, and that's not where we're going to wind up, but that's where you starter and it's kabuki theater, as you said. >> eliot:
of the fiscal cliff. >> eliot: you're saying something hugely important. alan greenspan did try to create the impression that the market and the economy was one and the same. that was a huge mistake the financialization of our economy. that's what led to the cataclysm in 2008. perhaps more important, the point you made, you're right there are a lot of people who are trying to create the fear, the cassandras that i referred to the top of the show who are behind that argument who say now...
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. >> cliff? >> listen, we are talking about fiscal issues here. wall street almost took down the world's economy a few years ago. we are still feeling the negativeasc effects of that. you talked earlier in the show of the income levels how it has gone down for almost all except the 1/10th of 1%. it's a lack of it. what we have grown acust ommed to, sadly, if they don't point out who the people are, tell the story of who it is that's caused the troubles we have today, people who have lost their income are left to listen to the blather on the right to blame unions and blame people who have earned pensions and worked hard. the other day, alan simpson coming out and saying that people who just want to get their social security are greedy employees geezers. this is what they do. if you are honest with people and tell them who took down the world economy, who did this just inviteing them into your cabinet and making friends with them, this is what we get left with. >> gid. >> cliff, there is a difference between that and looking at the abuses with pensi
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ready to sit down, one would hope and work out a deal on the fiscal cliff. but republicans are angry that president obama is going back on the road this week to seek support, build support among the american people for that tax break for 98% of americans. mitch mcconnell insists president obama instead should be sitting down with him and john boehner. baloney! president obama learned a long time ago didn't he, that any time spent time with mitch mcconnell and john boehner is a total waste of time. we'll get into that and a whole lot more. first, take time out here at the top of the hour to get the latest, today's current news update from lisa ferguson out in los angeles. hi lisa. good morning. >> hey bill, good morning everyone. congress is back in session and bill mentioned what we're seeing from the republicans. here's what we're seeing from the democrats. they are starting to draw a hard line over entitlement benefits now during the talks over the fiscal cliff. their latest message to republicans is hands off. both social security and medicare. yesterday,
ready to sit down, one would hope and work out a deal on the fiscal cliff. but republicans are angry that president obama is going back on the road this week to seek support, build support among the american people for that tax break for 98% of americans. mitch mcconnell insists president obama instead should be sitting down with him and john boehner. baloney! president obama learned a long time ago didn't he, that any time spent time with mitch mcconnell and john boehner is a total waste of...
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david, i want to drill down on even over this past weekend we heard the fiscal cliff is a cliff. no parachute. bad things happen if we go over it. i have never been persuaded of that. the payroll tax is likely to go up either way. the taxes in the healthcare bill will kickback in no matter what. sequestration could be remedied. is it in your view a slope, a cliff, what is the metaphor, and is there hysteria attached to this that is excessive? >> cliff is a problematic metaphor because it is not like the debt ceiling. it's not even like the government shutdown. you don't necessarily have an enormous market reaction. this is not like the country defaulting on its debt. but it's serious for two reasons. we don't know what the reaction could be. there it is a chance that it could spook the markets. the second thing, the combine pieces of this passage is a combined 4% of the gdp. if they went into affect and remained in affect not just for a couple of weeks but for the full year it's hard to see how the economy avoids a recession next year. it's not guaranteed but it's more than enoug
david, i want to drill down on even over this past weekend we heard the fiscal cliff is a cliff. no parachute. bad things happen if we go over it. i have never been persuaded of that. the payroll tax is likely to go up either way. the taxes in the healthcare bill will kickback in no matter what. sequestration could be remedied. is it in your view a slope, a cliff, what is the metaphor, and is there hysteria attached to this that is excessive? >> cliff is a problematic metaphor because it...
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. >> sit down and work out what's going to happen before this fiscal cliff and do a grand bargain. >> the president must be willing to reduce spending. >> the president's always said i have a mandate. it's generally untrue. >> we are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions a understand we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. >> all right. now, let's discuss how incredibly dumb the republicans were. that's a fun topic isn't it? >> overall in this election, presidential and otherwise about $6 billion were spent. now, karl rove's group spent about $400 million of incredibly rich folks' money all wealth offed, which kind of awesome. we're going to show you a compilation of karl rove clips before the election where he's all khaki and confident to but... but... >> the democratic model is let's just appeal to the new coalition of barbies browns, young people angry liberals. we are spending over $2 million in pennsylvania on television. we would not be spending it unless we sensed an opportunity there. >> north carolina, florida virginia? >> all three of those
. >> sit down and work out what's going to happen before this fiscal cliff and do a grand bargain. >> the president must be willing to reduce spending. >> the president's always said i have a mandate. it's generally untrue. >> we are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions a understand we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. >> all right. now, let's discuss how incredibly dumb the republicans were. that's a fun topic isn't it?...
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stare them down. tell them to go over the cliff and enjoy the ride. the public gets it. the public understands that the rates should go up for the wealthiest. look at every poll on the matter. look at the outcome of prop 30 in california. mr. president, you need to tell speaker boehner that the time for elliptical answers and vagueness is over. tell him if he wants to have a substantive conversation on fiscal negotiations, it's time for him to put his cards on the table face up. ask him to explain exactly which loopholes he would like to close. ask him to explain how those loopholes could be closed without designating the middle class. tell him the time for specifics is now. mr. president, it's time to announce specifics. start with the capital gains rate. make it clear this is an essential part of any deal. capital gains should be taxed as ordinary income. there should be no difference. mr. president. it's time to be tough. that's my view. >> eliot: it was a break up letter read around the world. and it made one former wall street insider greg smith a 12-year veteran an
stare them down. tell them to go over the cliff and enjoy the ride. the public gets it. the public understands that the rates should go up for the wealthiest. look at every poll on the matter. look at the outcome of prop 30 in california. mr. president, you need to tell speaker boehner that the time for elliptical answers and vagueness is over. tell him if he wants to have a substantive conversation on fiscal negotiations, it's time for him to put his cards on the table face up. ask him to...
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i wrote a piece titled going over the fiscal cliff bad for americans, good for obama. that's what it is. if we go over the fiscal cliff it will hit me in the pocketbook. it will hit you probably in the pocketbook but the reality is republicans will get blame and heading into midterm elections that's not exactly a bad thing for the president or a democrat. >> john: how dare you be so sane. president obama isn't afraid of it. on january 1st, he can mitch the middle class tax cut and get that passed. this is not obama's tax increase. this is bush's tax increase going back to the clinton-era rates designed to expire two years ago but of course you know all of this. i want to turn to everybody's favorite topic. something you wrote a terrific piece on that i loved. secretary of state hillary clinton now fox news hosted greta van susteren took issue with her snarky comments about the concussion that forced hillary clinton to not testify today about benghazi. greta wrote... they think it's just a way of avoiding testifying this -- chris christie avoided it with an ice cream he
i wrote a piece titled going over the fiscal cliff bad for americans, good for obama. that's what it is. if we go over the fiscal cliff it will hit me in the pocketbook. it will hit you probably in the pocketbook but the reality is republicans will get blame and heading into midterm elections that's not exactly a bad thing for the president or a democrat. >> john: how dare you be so sane. president obama isn't afraid of it. on january 1st, he can mitch the middle class tax cut and get...
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. >> jennifer: the fiscal cliff debate is behind us thankfully and you would have thought the republicans would have learned their lesson but today, mitch mcconnell threat inned to again shut that whole government thing down. >> none of us like using these situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the depreciation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this. it's a shame we have to use whatever leverage have in congress to get the president to deal with our future with excessive spending. >> jennifer: it was yesterday he said that but i'm sure he still believes it today. everybody agrees we have to cut spending for long-term purposes. the disagreement is over the length of time. joining me now is pulitizer prize winner hedrick smith, he is the author of the new book "who stole the american dream?" so glad to well you inside "the war room." >> so good to be with you. >> jennifer: do you think the middle class is a casualty of this kind of political wrangling in washington. >> i think it goes further back than that. it starts with a huge power shift that took p
. >> jennifer: the fiscal cliff debate is behind us thankfully and you would have thought the republicans would have learned their lesson but today, mitch mcconnell threat inned to again shut that whole government thing down. >> none of us like using these situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the depreciation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this. it's a shame we have to use whatever leverage have in congress to get the president to deal with...
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cliff. december, we'll get a punt to the next congress. they'll extend the tax cuts. we won't get a lot of deductions. imogen, explain why now and november, nothing is going to happen. we've got eight weeks left until election day. >> the whole world is waiting for the u.s. presidential election. it always does. everything is always on hold. unless there is a major crisis like you had in 2008. the good news is it is not as big a crisis as 2008, it is still a crisis. i hail from a country that is -- >> eliot: i couldn't tell from your accent. australia? >> we're now in a double dip recession. so it is a really, really bad idea to -- i agree with you i don't think it is going to happen. >> eliot: it isn't going to happen in the next two weeks. what you're referring to is austerity. europe, we've been saying this on the show, we've been conducting the biggest macroeconomic experiment in history with european austerity government contracting spending forcing most of europe into a double dip rece
cliff. december, we'll get a punt to the next congress. they'll extend the tax cuts. we won't get a lot of deductions. imogen, explain why now and november, nothing is going to happen. we've got eight weeks left until election day. >> the whole world is waiting for the u.s. presidential election. it always does. everything is always on hold. unless there is a major crisis like you had in 2008. the good news is it is not as big a crisis as 2008, it is still a crisis. i hail from a country...
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. >> two peanuts for walking down the street. and he knows it. >> germans not known for their joke telling. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: all right. david limbaugh? >> yeah. rush's younger brother. >> his demand involve spending increasing, no decreases, at least under the fiscal cliff we have some mandatory cutting, albeit disproportionately to defense spending but it's better than accepting obama's terms crammed down our throat. boehner needs to paint obama as the one who is holding the country hostage. he wants to talk about holding the middle class hostage? no it's him holding the entire country hostage and our kids hostage, with his krin call refuse ool to enter the entitlement reform game. >> wow, he is really bad. >> stephanie: yeah i can see why he didn't get the radio show. >> sheky. >> stephanie: that was so merrill osmond. >> merrill was kind of the leader. >> stephanie: i dove donnie. steve doocy. >> europe is great because they have wonderful food and runny cheeses, but we shouldn't base our policies on theirs because t
. >> two peanuts for walking down the street. and he knows it. >> germans not known for their joke telling. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: all right. david limbaugh? >> yeah. rush's younger brother. >> his demand involve spending increasing, no decreases, at least under the fiscal cliff we have some mandatory cutting, albeit disproportionately to defense spending but it's better than accepting obama's terms crammed down our throat. boehner needs to paint obama as the...
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the longer the president waits the more leverage he has in the fiscal cliff negotiations. next in my view. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. now to my point. (vo) jennifer granholm ... >>for every discouraged voter, there are ten angry ones taking action. trickle down does not work. in romney's world, cars get the elevator and the workers get the shaft. that is a whole bunch of bunk. the powerful may steal an election, but they can't steal democracy. ñ ñ rrrrenttv
the longer the president waits the more leverage he has in the fiscal cliff negotiations. next in my view. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. now to my point. (vo) jennifer granholm ... >>for every discouraged voter, there are ten angry ones taking action. trickle down does not work. in romney's world, cars get the elevator and the workers get the shaft. that is a whole bunch of bunk. the powerful may steal an election, but they can't steal democracy. ññrrrrenttv
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cliff reminds him of every vote that let him down ♪ ♪ as he cried out in his anger and his shame ♪ ♪ i'm weeping i am weeping but he still remains ♪ ♪ crying eyes ♪ ♪ crying eyes ♪ >> yea! rocky mountain mike. >> stephanie: rocky mountain mike never on vacation. >> never. >> stephanie: you gotta keep working while mama's on vacation. go! great stuff. we have more. >> the boehner. >> stephanie: sunday, he warned president obama he should not cast blame on republicans. no! why would he do that? for a possible failure. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] because they've been so helpful in every way. as dana perino says, he's been the only adult in the room. >> i'm the only adult in the room. shut up. i hate you. >> stephanie: we've been reasonable and responsible. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: the president is the one who's never been able to get to yes. >> the president -- he has -- that's the problem. he is -- >> stephanie: that's why the andy borowitz headlines are the best. job of destroying congress is in their hands. mission of destroying the economy is in the capable hands of
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cliff compromise that had no major spending cuts. maybe boehner thought it was just too much at one time. maybe he was afraid of a complete revolt from his party -- >> jennifer: well it certainly didn't go over well. we have a sound bite of pete king from new york who has been going absolutely ballistic over this today. take a listen. >> these republicans have no problem finding new york when they are out raising millions of dollars. they are in new york all the time filling their pockets with money from new yorkers anyone who contributes one penny to congressional republicans is out of their minds. because last night they put a knife in the back of new yorker and new jerseyians with absolute disgrace. >> jennifer: obviously peter king is not looking to switch parties, but do you think he would encourage a challenge against boehner? or is that just him being angry. >> well peter king's day-long revolt ended with a meter with john boehner today and congressman king came away from that meeting somewhat more pleased hearing that the spe
cliff compromise that had no major spending cuts. maybe boehner thought it was just too much at one time. maybe he was afraid of a complete revolt from his party -- >> jennifer: well it certainly didn't go over well. we have a sound bite of pete king from new york who has been going absolutely ballistic over this today. take a listen. >> these republicans have no problem finding new york when they are out raising millions of dollars. they are in new york all the time filling their...
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the fiscal cliff is still looming, but those worries don't seem to be slowing down auto sales. autos flew off the hot at the highest rate in four years. 1.9 million cars, trucks and suvs sold in the united states in september, up 13% from last year -- then same period a year ago. that gets us up to probably 15 million vehicles being sold -- new cars and trucks sold this year in the united states. again, proving that the auto bailout, which mitt romney opposed, remember he preferred just letting our auto industry go belly up. so good news on the jobs front and the auto front. let's talk about it at 866-55-press. the economy, showing good signs of progress. >> announcer: this is the bullfight strategies. the "bill press show." live on your radio and on current tv. ♪ (vo) always outspoken, now unleashed, joy behar. >> on my next show, i'll talk to tyne daly. she won the prestigious rush limbaugh's worst nightmare award. i don't think you knew that. jack you're a little boring. boring. boring. [ jack ] after lauren broke up with me, i went to the citi private pass page and decide
the fiscal cliff is still looming, but those worries don't seem to be slowing down auto sales. autos flew off the hot at the highest rate in four years. 1.9 million cars, trucks and suvs sold in the united states in september, up 13% from last year -- then same period a year ago. that gets us up to probably 15 million vehicles being sold -- new cars and trucks sold this year in the united states. again, proving that the auto bailout, which mitt romney opposed, remember he preferred just letting...
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so i think there has been so much hysteria over this fiscal cliff that i'm not sure it's warranted. >> that's exactly right. and also the ryan budget you know, their doctrine -- and it really is doctrining. lower taxes for the wealthy, and that will trickle down. untrue. number 2 increase spending in the pentagon way beyond what the pentagon wants and that will make us three. and that cut back on things like education and scientific research and somehow we'll have a stronger future. none of those things make any sense. at the core of the ryan approach, and he is representative of the dominant republican point of view now, is that you are on your own. it is an ayn rand kind of deal. if you are well off and can afford private school and you can give in a gated community, that's the way it ought to be and all of us ought to strive for that, but the fact is when this country has done well, we have had policies that have given the middle class an opportunity to succeed, and it takes a public/private partnership. >> stephanie: yep. representative, how do you see this playing out and how abo
so i think there has been so much hysteria over this fiscal cliff that i'm not sure it's warranted. >> that's exactly right. and also the ryan budget you know, their doctrine -- and it really is doctrining. lower taxes for the wealthy, and that will trickle down. untrue. number 2 increase spending in the pentagon way beyond what the pentagon wants and that will make us three. and that cut back on things like education and scientific research and somehow we'll have a stronger future. none...
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there was nothing going on the fiscal cliff brunch boehner had announced he was going home to ohio for the weekend. it looks like things had shut down and nothing on the nomination front. no news about the secretary of defense. there was a no-news briefing. suddenly wow bombs dropped all over the place, susan rice dropping out and john boehner heading down to the white house for a 50-minute meeting with president obama before he left forshire for ohio. ryan grimm joins us. we would love a thursday afternoon like that one? >> good times >> bill: back to our word pros prosprocessors prosprocessors. shooting stuff out there. let's start with susan rice. did president obama just decide, i've got a lot of battles in front of me. this is one i don't want to fight? >> i think it was some of that, but i think she percentage decided she didn't want to go forward with it from what i heard and what she said was that i think she started getting bothered by the trans-canada stuff. she had a million dollars worth of stock intrans canada which is, you know, even her defenders saw that and wait a minu
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not that far down the road but get into 2013, get the fiscal cliff thing behind us. why? >> i think tom coburn and the president have slightly different reasons for it. but the problem with just doing tax reform when you don't have the rates going back up is that these deductions and credits that we're going to have to go after to reform, they primarily benefit people at the top. but they also benefit middle-class families. and if you just change those then what you end up doing is raising taxes on middle-class families as well. to get the same amount of revenue. in other words, if you're trying to get a revenue target, let's say $1.6 trillion which is what the president wants. you try to do that just by reforming the code, without the rates. you don't touch the rates. the only way to do it is to get the money out of the middle class. the president doesn't want to do that and most people don't want to do that. but if you let the rates go back up, you're basically halfway to your revenue target and you can get the rest of the revenue from reforms without hurting lower and
not that far down the road but get into 2013, get the fiscal cliff thing behind us. why? >> i think tom coburn and the president have slightly different reasons for it. but the problem with just doing tax reform when you don't have the rates going back up is that these deductions and credits that we're going to have to go after to reform, they primarily benefit people at the top. but they also benefit middle-class families. and if you just change those then what you end up doing is...
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those are issues that we should address, but not part of the fiscal cliff. >> eliot: there would an way to thread the needle with the moderate republicans and without deferring the republicans because of this majority of the majority rule. you know, time is up, unfortunately. we rarely go to bon jovi for political wisdom, but linguistics is what politics is all about. he said we should not be using the phrase "entitlements" but "empowerment." should we strike the word entitlements. >> it's not an entitlement because people have prayed
those are issues that we should address, but not part of the fiscal cliff. >> eliot: there would an way to thread the needle with the moderate republicans and without deferring the republicans because of this majority of the majority rule. you know, time is up, unfortunately. we rarely go to bon jovi for political wisdom, but linguistics is what politics is all about. he said we should not be using the phrase "entitlements" but "empowerment." should we strike the word...
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cliff deal that they'll come to an agreement eventually to sort of stand down a little bit. if not necessarily on the rhetoric but on -- in practice as far as blocking nominees. they'll allow mccain and graham to let off steam and pop off a little bit so long as they don't -- you know, filibuster or as long as the white house doesn't have ways to get around that. >> what do you make, reid, about the benghazi hearing today. general petraeus will be testifying. senators dianne feinstein said this will not be about his personal -- this will be about benghazi. what is congress looking to try to get out of these hearings other than in some cases politically to deliver a black eye to the white house. but in terms of factual material. >> certainly, that's what -- there is a lot of republicans looking to deliver a black eye to the white house. they lost an election. this is sort of what they have to hang on to at this point. but the other thing about the benghazi hearing and the whole petraeus nonsense with paula broadwell and jill kelley and that saga is that it gives the white hou
cliff deal that they'll come to an agreement eventually to sort of stand down a little bit. if not necessarily on the rhetoric but on -- in practice as far as blocking nominees. they'll allow mccain and graham to let off steam and pop off a little bit so long as they don't -- you know, filibuster or as long as the white house doesn't have ways to get around that. >> what do you make, reid, about the benghazi hearing today. general petraeus will be testifying. senators dianne feinstein...
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cliff. this is the first one congressman and yet last night before the networks had declared obama the victor, right john boehner was saying whatever happens tonight this doesn't mean we're going to change our position on taxes. >> this is why it was so counter productive of speaker boehner to lead with that. essentially, he was drawing a line in the sand on an issue that was part of the -- at the center of the debate in this election. the president could not have been clearer that if you want a take a balanced approach to deficit reduction, you've got to ask the very wealthy to go back to paying the same tax rate they were on the clinton administration. 100% of the american people get tax relief on their first $250,000 of income. the president is saying we need to reduce the deficit ask the wealthier to pay a little bit more because if we don't it means everybody else takes it on the chin harder, cuts to education, infrastructure and the economy and seniors on medicare get whacked harder. t
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the payroll tax hike and the other tax increases from the fiscal cliff deal are just going to be starting, i think, to show up down the line. the connell assumers can borrow for a little while, you know, put stuff on their credit cards to make up the spending but eventually, it starts to bite. svelte have as much money to spend. then you put on top of that the contractt contractionary he was, which should be about a half a point this year taken away. >> that's the not the sort of momentum you want for a recovery. >> that's true the 7.7%, heading in the right direction that could reefers if the congressional if losing 750,000 jobs turns out to be true. >> it's something we have seen in the past few years. there are concerns that we are going to see that now: the job creation will slow, the unemployment rate could tick back up. remember, even if we didn't have that, we are not creating jobs nearly fast enough to put everybody back to work. >> right. >> within a couple of years even. >> you need to get up to what? how high? i have seen that number. i forget what it is. 236,000 is not where w
the payroll tax hike and the other tax increases from the fiscal cliff deal are just going to be starting, i think, to show up down the line. the connell assumers can borrow for a little while, you know, put stuff on their credit cards to make up the spending but eventually, it starts to bite. svelte have as much money to spend. then you put on top of that the contractt contractionary he was, which should be about a half a point this year taken away. >> that's the not the sort of momentum...
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. >> it has been, you know between the fiscal cliff and trying to get -- him trying to get his agenda on track before the next sent ceiling fight trying to pack in stuff. gun violence moved to the forefront. immigration, talking about it looks like the next two years are going to be pretty action-packed. >> a week to the next six months. >> we go from there . >> all right. >> exactly. a lot to talk about today and our whole team is in place ready to go. peter ogburn and dan henning. hi guys. >> cyprian boulding. >> two years. >> trying to make us look good. >> the entertainment. awards program. they did a great job. amy the poehler and tina fey. can't do better than that in hosting. some of the awards raised some eyebrows. july julia roberts got to present the best award for the best motion picture drama. >> the golden globe goes to "argo. ". >> uh-huh. "argo". >> interesting. not "lincoln"? >> not "lincoln" and not "zero dark thirty". >> affleck. what office this mean? you have seen "zero dark thirty"? thirty"? >> i have. >> best picture of the year. >> no spoiler alerts. >> they did
. >> it has been, you know between the fiscal cliff and trying to get -- him trying to get his agenda on track before the next sent ceiling fight trying to pack in stuff. gun violence moved to the forefront. immigration, talking about it looks like the next two years are going to be pretty action-packed. >> a week to the next six months. >> we go from there . >> all right. >> exactly. a lot to talk about today and our whole team is in place ready to go. peter...
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. >> so meredith shiner, on the fiscal cliff. >> yes, sir. >> there are a lot of different pieces of it and it can get very complicated, but it can also get boiled down to kind of one first step which the president keeps pointing out. he says, let's just start on what we all agree on. we all agree taxes should not go up for the middle class. so we have a bill that's already passed the senate. it wasn't a filibuster. beefs partnership everybody will get a tax cut on the first $250,000 worth of income for 98% of americans more than they would ever need for a tax cut. the president said the senate says i have my pen. i am ready to sign it. all we need is a vote in the house. why won't that take place? >> trying to get enough signatures for a discharge. >> getting ahead of yourself? >> yeah. >> why no vote? >> it's complicated. i think that what we are seeing now is not any sort of real negotiation. it is a battle of messaging to try to secure aparticular victories. one of the most interesting things about this entire debate is we are focused on the tax season. this is what people feel i
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they would have put america off the fiscal cliff and they would have never had the thing come up for a vote depend that he waived the hastert role. he hasn't waived the hastert rule trying to create a farm bill or highway bill. it is, it is the death location for legislation and good ideas. we really have to pay attention to the hastert rule. that should be as well-known to progressives and to americans who are interested in good government as the filibuster. >> bill: i saw you in the chamber for the state of the union. didn't have a chance to talk. overall, the president a very ambitious, very bold program. your reaction to -- copy of your press release. >> i thought it was really terrific. he focused right on the economy which i think remains our number one issue. he focused right on the middle class. consequences of the economy that has to be our laser focus. he's dead right about that. he focused on things like infrastructure which are so sensible but have been -- you know constant republican obstruction against even basic infrastructure. they stalled the highway bill through the
they would have put america off the fiscal cliff and they would have never had the thing come up for a vote depend that he waived the hastert role. he hasn't waived the hastert rule trying to create a farm bill or highway bill. it is, it is the death location for legislation and good ideas. we really have to pay attention to the hastert rule. that should be as well-known to progressives and to americans who are interested in good government as the filibuster. >> bill: i saw you in the...
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now this will keep cuts in place but not for those who are half of the fiscal cliff. if they would were interesting in governing they would do that. the president being very gracious. >> obama: my hope is by the end of the year we have a chance to sit down and talk. you know, there are certain aspects of governor romney's record and his ideas that i think could be very helpful. well, to give you one example i do think that he did a terrific job running the olympics. i would like to get ideas from him and see if there are some ways we can potentially work together. >> stephanie: if it were me, i would would have said with government money. >> but you're not gracious. >> stephanie: i'm a left wing hate monger. as you know. >> according to sean hannity and brian mulroney. >> stephanie: right. >> cry baby sore losers. >> stephanie: let's do compare and contrast. here is mitt romney in a phone call to downers. >> the president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition give an extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggr
now this will keep cuts in place but not for those who are half of the fiscal cliff. if they would were interesting in governing they would do that. the president being very gracious. >> obama: my hope is by the end of the year we have a chance to sit down and talk. you know, there are certain aspects of governor romney's record and his ideas that i think could be very helpful. well, to give you one example i do think that he did a terrific job running the olympics. i would like to get...
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. >> that we're likely to see at least a down payment of some kind to keep us from going over the fiscal cliff. in this region there is great angst because there are so many defense contractors here. >> bill: of course. right. >> i just don't -- it will be mostly saved by the senate packaging a deal which comes over to the house. if of the republicans will vote against it but in effect boehner will let it come over and let it happen carried by democrats. >> bill: but some republicans are going to have to vote for it -- >> yes. and some will. >> bill: doesn't that mean that some republicans are going to have to accept raising revenues? >> and you will note bill increasingly they are beginning to creep away from the pledge. >> bill: grover norquist? >> yeah. >> bill: oh, really? >> we have seen more and more saying i'm not going to take that pledge, or i haven't taken that pledge, so some are going to have to vote for it and i believe given the d&asker that will be staring us in the face some will, but it will be carried think democrats. >> bill: one statement that the president made in th
. >> that we're likely to see at least a down payment of some kind to keep us from going over the fiscal cliff. in this region there is great angst because there are so many defense contractors here. >> bill: of course. right. >> i just don't -- it will be mostly saved by the senate packaging a deal which comes over to the house. if of the republicans will vote against it but in effect boehner will let it come over and let it happen carried by democrats. >> bill: but...